OBVERSE

Design in honor of the running event, at the ninth World Athletics Championships held at the Stade de France (in the city of Saint-Denis) in 2003. Caption: RUNNING

REVERSE 

In front of the city of Paris, a podium beneath whose steps are inscribed the three words of the national motto LIBERTY, EQUALITY, and FRATERNITY; in the upper part, the inscription FRENCH REPUBLIC and the face value 1 EURO 1/2; in the lower part, the logo of the sporting event and the year 2003 between the French mint marks (on the left the cornucopia, on the right the heart, the mint mark chosen by the artist engraver Serge Levet)